Name servers - argg (PLEASE HELP)

My lord, I have had the Nocster Valentine's Day special server for about 2 weeks, and I still cannot get my name servers up and running so that I can use the darn thing.

This is a brief rundown of what has happened so far:

1. I receive the email that lets me know that my account was activated. So I log in to WHM, and it immediately asks me to setup the name server. I do a little searching around for info as to what I should do, can't find anything that seems to apply to me. So I set up the Primary and Secondary Nameserver using two of the 5 IPs I had been sent. When this didn't seem to work, I emailed mainarea to ask him if I had done something wrong, and he sent me the actual name servers I was to use.

2. Previously I had tried to set up ns1.highboard.com and ns2.highboard.com, and when I realized I had the wrong IP addresses entered in, I tried to delete the settings I had given them. But apparently other nameservers out there on the internet were already pointing back to my server, so I could not delete the name server settings. So I attempted setting up ns3.highboard.com and ns4.highboard.com using WHM. This did not work, and I went back in to WHM, noticed that my binding for name servers had been turned off. I turned this back on, and waited..did not work.

3. I emailed Nocster and they sent me a fairly comprehensive list of things to do to set up my name server. This is the part of the mail that I did:
"run /scripts/adddns for each of the nameserver you are setting up,
and enter the full nameserver name and IP as requested by the script.

run /etc/rc.d/init.d/named reload
...to reload the nameserver/bind.

ping the nameservers, and they should resolve to the correct ips now."
The nameservers did ping from my root account, so I waited..but still it will not ping from an external account.

The strange thing though, is when I have checked my ns3 and ns4 nameservers at Internic, they seem to be set up fine. But I can not ping to them..!

Btw, I should mention that I did of course set things up with my registrar (dotster)... so that side of things should be ok.

Any thoughts or ideas??

 

 

 

 

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